American Minute

American Minute with Bill Federer William Prescott was born FEBRUARY 20, 1726. At age 32, he married his wife Abigail, and they moved to Pepperell, Massachusetts. William...

American Minute with Bill Federer A baseball star, Billy Sunday played for the Chicago White Stockings in the 1880's and later the Philadelphia Phillies. Born during...

American Minute with Bill Federer Presidents' Day is actually Washington's birthday, recognized by an Act of Congress for government offices in Washington, D.C., in 1879,...

American Minute with Bill Federer Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin were born on the exact same day, FEBRUARY 12, 1809, but their lives had opposite...

American Minute with Bill Federer Peter Cartwright (1785-1872) was ordained by the Methodist circuit-riding preachers Rev. Francis Asbury and Rev. William McKendree. He served as a...

American Minute with Bill Federer Society ... must repose on principles that do not change" -- wrote Montesquieu, The Spirit of the Laws, 1748, Book...

American Minute with Bill Federer "Tippecanoe and Tyler too" was the campaign slogan of 9th President William Henry Harrison, born FEBRUARY 9, 1773. Harrison was an...

American Minute with Bill Federer Frederick Douglass was born Frederick "Baily" on a Maryland plantation around February 7, 1817, though no accurate records exist, as...

AMERICAN MINUTE WITH BILL FEDERER Five dollars was all she was paid by the Atlantic Monthly Magazine for her poem, "The Battle Hymn of the Republic," published FEBRUARY 1,...

American Minute with Bill Federer "Two roads diverged in a yellow wood And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked...

American Minute with Bill Federer In 1519, the Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan set out on the first voyage to circumnavigate the world. Sailing for Spain, Magellan began his search...

American Minute with Bill Federer Virginia, the largest state in America in 1788 almost refused to ratify the U.S. Constitution, as it did not contain a Bill of Rights, as...

AMERICAN MINUTE WITH BILL FEDERER "THE TEN COMMANDMENTS are not the laws. They are THE Law" - stated Cecil B. DeMille, November 8, 1956, at...

American Minute with Bill Federer "Our threat is from the insidious forces working from within which have already so drastically altered the character of our...

American Minute with Bill Federer Edmund Burke is considered the most influential orator in the British House of Commons in the 18th century. Born January 12,...

American Minute with Bill Federer The Renaissance of the 15th century led the Reformation of the 16th century, followed by the Scientific Revolution -- a period of increased understanding in...

American Minute with Bill Federer Though George Washington presided at the Constitutional Convention, George Mason refused to sign the U.S. Constitution. Why? Because it did not put enough limits on the Federal...

American Minute with Bill Federer George Orwell wrote in his dystopian novel 1984: "Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has...

50 States acknowledge God "from sea to shining sea" American Minute with Bill Federer "O Beautiful, For Spacious Skies, For Amber Waves of Grain ..." ​ Almost chosen...

American Minute with Bill Federer He intentionally fired into the air, but his political rival, the sitting Vice-President Aaron Burr, took deadly aim and fatally...